March 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: Problem switching to qmail.
by Craig Millar 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

On 09/03/05 16:34 +0700, ReymanX wrote: > Actually my problem is around dependecies. How can i remove postfix > but still my dependencies is still correct. another way is to create an empty rpm with no source. in /usr/src/packages/SPECS create a file called qmail.spec Inside qmail.spec place the following: Buildarch: noarch Conflicts: sendmail, exim, postfix, smail Group: Utilities/System License: GPL Name: qmail Provides: smtp_daemon, /usr/sbin/sendmail Release: 0suse92 Summary: empty qmail package to satisfy dependencies Version: 1 %description empty qmail package %files then, type rpmbuild -bb qmail.spec and hey presto you'll have a freshly baked "qmail" rpm in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch/qmail-1-0suse92.noarch.rpm that you can install. That'll satisfy your dependencies, although of course it's up to you to make sure you have a link /usr/sbin/sendmail to the qmail sendmail wrapper. Of course you are using the life with qmail instructions, here: http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html rgds Craig

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"jar xf" doesn't work properly?
by pelibali 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Hello, While rebuilding the jDictionary source rpm, I just found, that the error message I get is related to the two lines of the .spec file I copied below: > jar xf ../jdictionary.jar META-INF resources > mv META-INF/MANIFEST.MF . Concerning the man page of jar, the format of the first line is correct, but the second command simply can't be executed, because "jar xf" doesn't do the job; the listed two folders don't get extracted at all. The man page refers to listed folders being extracted recursively, which just doesn't happen here. In case I remove the directory names, and use "jar xf ../jdictionary.jar", it works perfectly and extracts all of the stuff from the archive (at least on my SUSE 9.1). I have no idea, how the features of the jar command changed trough the time, but it's quite strange, that SUSE's own .spec doesn't build (I tried the source rpm of 9.1 and 9.2 as well) because the above anomalities. Could anyone comment this please, or let me know, where I missed the point?! Thanks, Pelibali

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2 CDs "psychologically" dead
by ellie philippen 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

My 2 cdroms on 9.0 open & close ok. Light flashes for abt 5 sec. when disk is inserted - then nothing. Yast ses both devices as ok. Clicking on either icon gets error - no disk in drive. The cd recorder is an Opteron. What information can I offer to get help? TIA Ellie

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funny du -h thing
by Aidin Alihodzic 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

hello list I wanted to delete some unnecessary data from one of my systems (running SuSE 9.2) so I decided to do "du -h" on whole /. filesystem and check which directories are free_space_eaters. I redirected output to file because I did it remotely and didn't wanted to watch all those filenames running in front of mu eyes. HDD in machine is an 40GB ATA and it took about 30 minutes (I haven't counted) to complete calculating occupied space. generated file was about 5.7MB big. so I didn't want to edit it and I did just tail on it... and I couldn't belive: ---- snip ----- 2.2G ./export/home 2.2G ./export 2.1T . WHOLE 2.1 TeraBytes on my 40GB HDD :-) amazing :) so I got curious what's messed up and decided to load file with vi and did some searching in it /T\t and I found this line 2.1T ./var/cache/man/opt OK, let's go there: #cd /var/cache/man/opt #du -h ----snip---- 0 ./cat1 0 ./cat2 0 ./cat3 0 ./cat4 0 ./cat5 0 ./cat6 0 ./cat7 0 ./cat8 0 ./cat9 0 ./catn 2.1T . all subdirs were 0 counted #ls -la --- snip --- directories going here ----- -rw-r--r-- 1 man 31370 2005-03-07 04:15 index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 2004-11-24 04:16 whatis #du -h index.db 32K index.db ok, let's check other one: #du -h whatis 2.0T whatis so... "whatis" messed up my counters :) well, that machine was an SuSE Frankenstein that's being upgraded each time new version comes out since 7.x now, I checked my home 9.2 fresh installed and there was no whatis file in directory ok, have various versions at work so I'm sshing/telnetting to them to check their status regarding strange terabytes... 7.1 nothing. 8.1 nothing.. 8.2 nothing... 9.0 nothing.... 9.1 nothing..... another 9.2 nothing and I'm giving up finally cheers Aidin

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Yast problem trying to add packages from DVD
by Bryan Tyson 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

In SuSE 9.2 I was trying to install additional packages from the DVD. Yast keeps saying "Insert SuSE Linux 9.2 DVD 1." I keep clicking OK with the DVD in the drive, and nothing happens. It just immediately repeats the same "insert DVD 1" dialog. I logged out, logged in as root, fired up Yast, and it installed the packages no problem. I logged back in as user, tried to install other packages, and same thing: endlessly repeating "Insert SuSE Linux 9.2 DVD 1" as if the DVD is not in the drive. Since it works as root, is there some kind of permission issue? That doesn't make sense since Yast requires the root password, but on the other hand I can't think of another explanation. Has anyone else seen this behavior or does anyone have an idea how I can get it to work without having to log out as user and back in as root? Thank you. Bryan ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional KDE 3.3.0 KMail 1.7.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ********************************************************

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Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
by Fajar Priyanto 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Hi all, For those of you who are interested in installing Linux on extended partition (or in MS terms we call it logical drive), I've successfully do it on installing Suse92 on hda10, where there is already MS Windows, and Mandrake. Here's the brief steps: 1. Install Windows (with 2 partitions in my case) 2. Install Mandrake on its own partition (with 5 partitions in my case, with 1 partition I call /data --> hda10) 3. Install Suse92 on /data. This is the caveat: -- choose LILO (you can use grub too, but I don't know yet the syntax), -- install LILO on the root partition of /hda10, -- format hda10 with any filesystem as long as Mandrake can read it. Suse will reboot once we finish the first installation step. 4. When rebooted, go into Mandrake. Modify /etc/lilo.conf with this: image=/data/boot/vmlinuz label="Suse92" root=/dev/hda10 initrd= /data/boot/initrd vga=788 read-only Modify the above lines that suits your environment. Run lilo -v to see if there's any error. If there isn't, you good to go. Reboot. You will see in the LILO menu that there's Suse92 entry. Choose it, and.... Voila! You've got Suse92! You dont even bother to create swap partition, Suse will use the swap from Mandrake. I've made an artikel about it in http://linux2.arinet.org (Indonesian) HTH. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 09:46:07 up 1:28, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key

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Upgrading php&mysql in SuSePro9.2
by Mark Susol|Ultimate Creative Media 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

How do I go about upgrading php & myswl in SuSE Pro 9.2? I see in YaST they have php 4.3.8 and MySQL 4.0.21 but I want to go to 4.3.10 and 4.0.23. Is there an RPM that would allow for php & mysql upgrade through YaST? Mark

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Make yast repository
by Jorge Ferrando Monterde 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Hi all. I wanna make a yast like repository with some custom rpms and some /projects rpms. What do I need to be able to add it to yast sources? Thanks!!

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Breaking and fixing YaST
by Bob Apthorpe 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Hi, I ran into the infamous "qt frontend is installed but does not work" and "ncurses frontend is installed but does not work" problems with YaST today and found both the cause and cure of the problem. The solution I've seen on this mailing list is to reboot and run the repair tool from the CD. All well and good for desktop users but I'm working on a server which I don't like to casually reboot. Also, since I didn't know the cause of the problem, I was worried that the system might not come back up if I rebooted. I suspected a corrupted YaST file so I used: rpm -qa | egrep -i yast | xargs -i rpm --verify {} which verifies all the installed packages named *yast*. For completeness, you'd want to do that to full dependency tree. That test came back clean so if RPM could be trusted, the problem was not in the YaST installation but somewhere else. I ran strace yast2 2>&1 | tee /tmp/yast_trace.txt to see if there was any problems detected by watching system calls. I've needed to do this when debugging problems with Apache silently dying, traced back to missing shared libraries. That got me nowhere, but using file `which yast2` I found that yast2 is just a bash script; at the top of the script there's a call to load some common functions: . /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/yast2-funcs which contains the tests for ncurses and qt. Now we're getting somewhere. The key parts of yast2-func are the tests /usr/bin/ldd "/usr/lib/YaST2/plugin/libpy2ncurses.so.2" \ | grep "=> not found" /usr/bin/ldd "/usr/lib/YaST2/plugin/libpy2qt.so.2" \ | grep "=> not found" which showed that these libraries couldn't find libcurl.so.2. It turns out that I had updated curl recently and apparently /usr/lib/libcurl.so.2 disappeared in the process. I reverted my curl upgrade and as if by magic YaST started working again. Problem solved, no reboot required. -- Bob

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SuSE 9.2 and Adaptec 2100S SCSI RAID
by Anders Norrbring 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Hiya! I'm trying to get SuSE 9.2 up and running from a system with an Adaptec 2100S SCSI RAID controller, and I want to run the system entirely on the SCSI arrays. No luck. Kernel panic after the first reboot after installation. It comes to mounting volumes, then setting up hardware dependencies and wham, there it dies. After some Googling I ran into Mark's guide for 9.1, does this apply to 9.2 and/or SLES9 as well? http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Aug/2476.html Later, Anders.

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